This week is Slow Food Week, so a week to celebrate the links between food, community and the environment. There are a number of events around the UK, with Lancashire in particular seeming to be quite active in this area. I have to say the Slow Food website is particularly lacking in detail on events [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Alastair Sawday'
Take it nice and slow
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Local food
The Sawday effect versus the Tarver effect
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Foodie treats, French food
As usual, we have decamped to France, although a week later than usual, meaning we’ve missed out on the Bastille Day festivities/eating opportunities. We’ll be making up for lost time! Along with a stack of other books, I’ve got a copy of Alastair Sawday’s Go Slow France, which kind of sums up our approach to [...]
Channelling Juliette Binoche
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Chocolate, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, French food, Places to eat, Sweet treats
Today is Juliette Binoche’s birthday, who I think is the most amazing actress. I also think she’s incredibly stylish, not to mention the fact she has that French flair of being comfortable in her own skin, and seems to have avoided the lure of the plastic surgeon. My favourite, favourite film of hers is Chocolat, [...]
Tags:Alastair Sawday·Chocolat·Chocolate·Flavigny-sur-Ozerain·French food·holidays·Johnny Depp·Juliette Binoche·Lent·Willie Harcourt Cooze
At sixes and sevens at Cotswold 88
September 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, Foodie Travel, Foodie treats, Places to eat
I feel it only fair to start this by saying there are many things that the ever patient Dr T is good at. Sadly, choosing hotels is not one of them. But he does normally choose ones that give us something to laugh about! Having survived 10 years of being married to me, he chose [...]
Tags:Afternoon tea·Alastair Sawday·Baking·Cardynham House·Cotswold 88·cream teas·Hawaiian chicken·Mr & Mrs Smith·Painswick·scones·The Royal Oak Painswick·The White Hart Inn Stow
